Below solutions to common problems with DesktopBSD's package management tool.

(This has been fixed in DesktopBSD tools 1.0.1)

On first startup I set the Package Manager to find a server automatically. Now I can not change it. The loop is between the “package list required” window and the terminal. Terminal reads as followed.

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>>> Running cvsup
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Connected to cvsup6.us.freebsd.org
Server message: Collection "ports-all" release "cvs" is not available here
Skipping collection ports-all/cvs
Finished successfully
INDEX-5.bz2 738 kB 237 kBps
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The error message means that the server, in this case cvsup6.us.freebsd.org, is broken.

Press [Alt]-[F2] and enter

kdesu kwrite /usr/X11R6/etc/settings/desktopbsdrc

The used server is stored in this configuration file. Remove the whole

cvsup_server=...

line. When starting the package manager the next time, it should prompt you for a server again. You should pick one of the servers from this list: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html